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romney this election was minus 10 million or something from the last election. he got 93%. >>> issue two. common ground. >> mr. president, this is your moment. we are ready to be led. not as democrats or republicans, but as americans. let's challenge ourselves to find the common ground that has eluded us. >> i'm open to compromise. i'm open to new ideas. i'm committed to solving our fiscal challenges. but, i refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. i'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes. i'm not going to do that. >> gridlock is the new big task facing barack obama and the u.s. congress. gridlock over the so-called fiscal cliff. what's the fiscal or better put financial cliff? think of it as a high, steep rock. a ledge the u.s. is teetering on and will plunge over if no action is taken on certain financial matters. what are those? one, the bush era tax cuts. in 2001 and 2003, congress, under president george w.
romney this election was minus 10 million or something from the last election. he got 93%. >>> issue two. common ground. >> mr. president, this is your moment. we are ready to be led. not as democrats or republicans, but as americans. let's challenge ourselves to find the common ground that has eluded us. >> i'm open to compromise. i'm open to new ideas. i'm committed to solving our fiscal challenges. but, i refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. i'm not going...
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>> well, it was a close election. let me see if i can talk about this without it being taken in the wrong way. the white vote in the united states is almost, not wholly republican, but overwhelmingly republican. >> paul: romney got i think 60% of that vote, 61. >> 60% of the vote even among 18 year olds got 52% of white 18 year olds. now, the idea, the media keeps talking about the white vote as though there's weird sort of racial story beneath it. there's nothing racial about this, it's about your perception of your own economic self-interest and i think the-- there is no evidence in this election that the republican party's ideas on tax efficiency or certainly even medicare and social security reform did not hurt them among elderly voters at all in florida. that those ideas are not the problem in this campaign. it had more to do with a technical way that mitt romney ran that campaign, and the pt overwhelmingly, the power of the obama turnout machine. but the republicans should not, i think, stand back and say, how d
>> well, it was a close election. let me see if i can talk about this without it being taken in the wrong way. the white vote in the united states is almost, not wholly republican, but overwhelmingly republican. >> paul: romney got i think 60% of that vote, 61. >> 60% of the vote even among 18 year olds got 52% of white 18 year olds. now, the idea, the media keeps talking about the white vote as though there's weird sort of racial story beneath it. there's nothing racial about...
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women are counted for 53% of the elect rat. was romney's deficit among women the decisive factor in his loss? >> yes. but this is not unusual. the reason is, john, there are tens of millions of single women with kids, who depend upon government for all the benefits and for the food, for the education, medication and all these things, and these folks generally vote and continue to vote democratic, because they see the republican party as a party that is an enemy of government from which they get benefits and they don't pay taxes. >> these women, by the way, work. >> some of them work, no doubt about it. >> well a majority of them actually, and you know, we always think about welfare moms. a lot of divorced moms, middle class moms are raising their families, working hard. any kind of support is important, and they want to feel like the government cares about them. >> there is another thing. >> i'm married to a woman, yes. >> that is what this chair is. >> look. mid and a lot of working class folks really feel that this economy do
women are counted for 53% of the elect rat. was romney's deficit among women the decisive factor in his loss? >> yes. but this is not unusual. the reason is, john, there are tens of millions of single women with kids, who depend upon government for all the benefits and for the food, for the education, medication and all these things, and these folks generally vote and continue to vote democratic, because they see the republican party as a party that is an enemy of government from which...
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then you go to election day. there are people with ipads checking actual voters showing up to the polls, oh, york selling soap. you're here, pushing the button. ey have a list. that was not happening on the republican side. so the operation was a lot more organized and just better all across the board. lou: one would have to believe the republicans will emulate in granular detail the ground operation, the next election. >> definitely. lou: you led alongwith gasoline harrison jennifer griffin, from the outset of benghazi coverage and doing a terrific job of it. we have followed the story closely year. it is one of the great surprises to me that that issue barely registered in the exit pols. what was your reaction to back. >> well, i just don't think it broke through. i think just at the end of the campaign, i was starting to get the story, starting to get a little bit more coverage from the mainstream media. the cbs tape came out. two days before the election from 60 minutes. that additional footage. president oba
then you go to election day. there are people with ipads checking actual voters showing up to the polls, oh, york selling soap. you're here, pushing the button. ey have a list. that was not happening on the republican side. so the operation was a lot more organized and just better all across the board. lou: one would have to believe the republicans will emulate in granular detail the ground operation, the next election. >> definitely. lou: you led alongwith gasoline harrison jennifer...
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and in my last book i suggested that we should put in place is a set of rules that once you're elected to an office like this you can't go to work with the industry's maybe we should pay lifetime pension and remove you from the economy. i suspect as costly as that might be it would be a lot cheaper than the things we are seeing now that are extracting billions and hundreds of billions of dollars from people's pockets but a market would never allow and getting them over to these corporations. >> host: back to the telecom industry there were remote control profits that were fascinating to me. would you go over that? >> guest: in kentuckians they go the same from scotland and the your famous from being very tight. they had a monopoly cable provider charging them with incredible prices and if you had a little quicker to change channels while you were sitting on the sofa, the couch potato, it was $5 a month. they were able to cut the prices dramatically and still make money on the system and they cut it to less than a dollar even that the dollar they make tremendous money you can buy a remo
and in my last book i suggested that we should put in place is a set of rules that once you're elected to an office like this you can't go to work with the industry's maybe we should pay lifetime pension and remove you from the economy. i suspect as costly as that might be it would be a lot cheaper than the things we are seeing now that are extracting billions and hundreds of billions of dollars from people's pockets but a market would never allow and getting them over to these corporations....
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certainly after the election. what do you make of that exchange between the state department and the press? >> >> consistent. dodge, delay, distort. they deny any responsibility. this is pretty consistent with an administration in the beginning said be the most clear and transparent in history and they have been anything but. the message we see today as talks to the group al shabaab. their awe is gone. they don't dare carry out another campaign like the ones they had in iraq and afghanistan. their embassies are burned. their ambassador are dead. they don't have the resolve to do what needs to be done. when that message is out there, my goodness, laura, what could be more blatant, more embolden than these folks right now. and why not? i mean, we sent inconsistent messages. africa has been on fire for quite some time. we keep hearing no, no, no, we got it under control. no they don't. i look at those four americans if we were going to honor ambassador stevens and mr. woods and mr. smith and mr. door at this, wouldn'
certainly after the election. what do you make of that exchange between the state department and the press? >> >> consistent. dodge, delay, distort. they deny any responsibility. this is pretty consistent with an administration in the beginning said be the most clear and transparent in history and they have been anything but. the message we see today as talks to the group al shabaab. their awe is gone. they don't dare carry out another campaign like the ones they had in iraq and...
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to you in paris i mean all things being equal it should have been a cakewalk for romney to win the election given the economy i mean people vote that way they vote about jobs inflation growth it should have been a cake walk why did he lose them. well i think it's a little more simple than what steve pointed out i think historically we've always seen that it's difficult to beat an incumbent they always have the advantage going into a reelection so obama did have that working for them and i actually think that the the the state of the global economy worked in obama's favor in the sense that it was really difficult for americans or anyone else to argue that the economy was strickly something that he could have controlled and the fact that he really hasn't been able to do much with it and there's really no no proof that that he's done a saying stellar about the economic situation in the united states in fact he's used taxpayer money to try to bail them out of that situation really not to much avail but i think the fact that the entire world is with the exception of maybe canada and a couple of
to you in paris i mean all things being equal it should have been a cakewalk for romney to win the election given the economy i mean people vote that way they vote about jobs inflation growth it should have been a cake walk why did he lose them. well i think it's a little more simple than what steve pointed out i think historically we've always seen that it's difficult to beat an incumbent they always have the advantage going into a reelection so obama did have that working for them and i...
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cross-talk american politics after the election i'm joined by two crosstalk usual suspects stephen lesser in new york he is host of the blog talk radio show making sense with steve lesser and a partner at democratic spring strategies and in paris we cross to rachel mars than she is a political communications strategist and a syndicated columnist all right folks you both put on the program before so you understand how crosstalk rules work steve if i go to you first what is the primary reason the number one reason why your man and everyone knows that your man won the election. well there's two or three main reasons but if you want to know the number one reason i think that the american people gave president obama credit for coming to office at a very difficult time when the economy was losing eight hundred thousand jobs a month and it really looked like the financial system was going to completely collapse and he turned that around now maybe you could say that not when you know more money much more needs to be done we wish we were a little bit their position that we were now but i think the
cross-talk american politics after the election i'm joined by two crosstalk usual suspects stephen lesser in new york he is host of the blog talk radio show making sense with steve lesser and a partner at democratic spring strategies and in paris we cross to rachel mars than she is a political communications strategist and a syndicated columnist all right folks you both put on the program before so you understand how crosstalk rules work steve if i go to you first what is the primary reason the...
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and frankly, if you or i were elected to congress, we'd have to behave like every member of congress does if we want to get reelected, which means we have to his top the people who provide the money for the campaigns for us to run to office, and it's not just joe six pack and mary smith. it's representatives of big corporations and wealthy individuals who come pleading, i just need a little change here to be fair. but they really want to unlevel the playing field and thwart the rigors of the market. there's no such thing as deregulation. that's only new regulation, so what we have done is taken regulations -- i'm not going to defend every regulation, but we took a regulatory scheme that looked at the interests of companies and the interests of customers and other parties, and replaced it with a system of the corporations, by the corporations, that takes away consumer rights. everything is regulated. i like to say, baseball regulates right down to how many stitches on the ball and the color of yarn. everything is regulated. most of the regulations in the federal code of regulationses
and frankly, if you or i were elected to congress, we'd have to behave like every member of congress does if we want to get reelected, which means we have to his top the people who provide the money for the campaigns for us to run to office, and it's not just joe six pack and mary smith. it's representatives of big corporations and wealthy individuals who come pleading, i just need a little change here to be fair. but they really want to unlevel the playing field and thwart the rigors of the...
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is it fair for florida voters to watch a president get elected or in this case re-elected days before the votes are even counted? >> well, the reality to that is, had there been a great spread of votes, had the other won by a landslide here, i wouldn't be doing here doing this interview. it's the closest of the race that really dwelled upon counting every vote. that's what florida wanted to be known for, accuracy and counting every vote. >> florida can be known for getting election results in like everyone else. >> yeah, but being fast and being wrong is not a good plan for anyone. in fact, we're still counting military votes. we give the military ten days from the election to count those that come from overseas. i hope the other state see as important as we do to make sure our military gets an opportunity to vote. >> do you think that the sunshine state needs to revamp its system at all in any way, shape, or form? >> absolutely. there are many things. one is, for example, in our county, in 2008, we had 284 precincts. we had 197 here because of budget cuts. we had an an kwated and no
is it fair for florida voters to watch a president get elected or in this case re-elected days before the votes are even counted? >> well, the reality to that is, had there been a great spread of votes, had the other won by a landslide here, i wouldn't be doing here doing this interview. it's the closest of the race that really dwelled upon counting every vote. that's what florida wanted to be known for, accuracy and counting every vote. >> florida can be known for getting election...
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allen west, fighting a tough election battle. hew he just got big-name backup. where others fail, droid powers through. introducing the new droid razr maxx hd by motorola. now more than ever droid does. >> senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. i'm happy to have that discussion with them. but for them to go after the u.n. ambass do, who had nothing to do with benghazi? and was simply making a presentation based on intel jeps that she had received? and to besmirch her reputation? is outrageous. >> greta: president obama lashing out at respect senators over the benghazi scandal. tonight, senator graham, fighting back, mr. president, don't think for one minute, i don't hold you responsible for benghazi. congressman jason chaffetz is here. i suspect he said the two senators should be going after him, not the upled n. ambationz dor. perhaps he should invite them up. >> i would love to have this discussion with the president. >> greta: friday, general petraeus is to testify. if you were on the committee and you
allen west, fighting a tough election battle. hew he just got big-name backup. where others fail, droid powers through. introducing the new droid razr maxx hd by motorola. now more than ever droid does. >> senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. i'm happy to have that discussion with them. but for them to go after the u.n. ambass do, who had nothing to do with benghazi? and was simply making a presentation based on intel jeps that...
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the campaign in the election moved back. and the leaders of this government. it is really disturbing. >> it is, and i think what you're going to find is that the republicans are going to continue to pursue the facts. they don't feel any way, shape or form intimidated by this president's reelection. as we both said, it's a separate branch of government. they will do there task and make the case to the american public. lou: we will leave it right there. thank you very much. we appreciate it. thank you. much more on the fiscal cliff, the irresponsibility with in washington that has led us to extraordinary points and much more on their resignation of cia director david patraeus. for bit 007, we have our own super spy scandal. cia director david patraeus resigns setting an extramarital affair and putting -- quoting does it -- teddy roosevelt in his resignation letter. president obama's reelection reigniting the debate about illegal immigration. what a republican shift on illegal immigration bring hispanic voters under the republican banner? and manhattan institute
the campaign in the election moved back. and the leaders of this government. it is really disturbing. >> it is, and i think what you're going to find is that the republicans are going to continue to pursue the facts. they don't feel any way, shape or form intimidated by this president's reelection. as we both said, it's a separate branch of government. they will do there task and make the case to the american public. lou: we will leave it right there. thank you very much. we appreciate...
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with the election itself, this election is going to be studied for a very long time. this is now the 21st century and what president obama did, he hired math wizards and so called stat geeks, and they dealt with data, facts, science, went into the census return. the republicans didn't learn that lesson. until they learn that lesson, they're going to have a hard time winning in the future. now, in terms of what can be accomplished for the country, you know, the good book says, let us come reason together. and if president obama takes that attitude, which it seems to me he has, and i agree with what you said on the program earlier, you saw a really renewed confidence in president obama. his body language is there, his statements are there, this is the obama the people thought they were getting in the 2008 election, but didn't see until, frankly, after the election was over. two things in my mind recently as to what we can expect from the president. that is when he addressed his young workers and he teared up, spoke from the heart, to teleprompter. and a very attractive
with the election itself, this election is going to be studied for a very long time. this is now the 21st century and what president obama did, he hired math wizards and so called stat geeks, and they dealt with data, facts, science, went into the census return. the republicans didn't learn that lesson. until they learn that lesson, they're going to have a hard time winning in the future. now, in terms of what can be accomplished for the country, you know, the good book says, let us come reason...
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it is not tied to the election. it is not even a political type of election. >> let me also say that i agree 100%. don't get me wrong. i don't think that us going in and invading is going to change perceptions. i agree. either way, there will be these perceptions. along with positive it images in the west. helping syria is by no means going to change the perceptions that we have some countries because of some countries versus others. >> i think there is a growing trend inside of washington in favor of intervention. some kind of increased action. i see no such trend in the country in public opinion. i just don't see any real support for it. the bottom line is this is horrible, but the american military intervention there would make things astronomically worse for syria and france. i think we are looking at an extended civil war fueled by the interventions and every player in the region right now, we got what started as a peaceful uprising. it has now been transformed into an insurgency. you know, basically every play
it is not tied to the election. it is not even a political type of election. >> let me also say that i agree 100%. don't get me wrong. i don't think that us going in and invading is going to change perceptions. i agree. either way, there will be these perceptions. along with positive it images in the west. helping syria is by no means going to change the perceptions that we have some countries because of some countries versus others. >> i think there is a growing trend inside of...
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we had a big election day. >> boy did they ever have a big election day in florida. that was darlene jones from wftv in orlando trying to get an answer from florida governor rick scott about this. voters stuck in line for eight hours and more in polling places around the state of florida after governor scott cut the days for early voting and refused to add any of them back when the lines were that long. he says it all worked fine. the right thing happened. florida officials say the lines pop up mostly in big cities with diverse population. they say that as if that's self-explanatory in terms of why you get long lines. but seriously, florida officials, have you guys ever been to l.a.? los angeles? really big city, really diverse. we have been getting letters from people who vote in california where they opened tons and tons of polling places that serve much smaller groups of voters than the way you deal with it in florida. in california, for example, they vote at the up in tune society columbarium, they vote in their neighbor's garage. they vote at the headquarters of
we had a big election day. >> boy did they ever have a big election day in florida. that was darlene jones from wftv in orlando trying to get an answer from florida governor rick scott about this. voters stuck in line for eight hours and more in polling places around the state of florida after governor scott cut the days for early voting and refused to add any of them back when the lines were that long. he says it all worked fine. the right thing happened. florida officials say the lines...
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a chance republicans will still force those crippling policies down our throats and where the newly elected congress gets under way the house will still be controlled by republicans in the senate will still be controlled by democrats what did republicans across america do in twenty one to keep as many democrats as possible out of the halls of congress and what effect did it have on this year's election. you need to know this it's time to tax the rich that's the essence of what vice president joe biden said following the democrats' big wins on election night speaking to a pool of reporters on wednesday biden said democrats clearly have a mandate on tax reform and this issue of taxes will have to be settled soon as congress returns for its lame duck session next week and the so-called fiscal cliff looms at the end of the year as we approach this cliff when the bush tax cuts would expire and both military and social spending would be cut republicans are hysterical in order to keep funding government democrats are proposing a modest three percent tax sight only on the rich taking us. to around
a chance republicans will still force those crippling policies down our throats and where the newly elected congress gets under way the house will still be controlled by republicans in the senate will still be controlled by democrats what did republicans across america do in twenty one to keep as many democrats as possible out of the halls of congress and what effect did it have on this year's election. you need to know this it's time to tax the rich that's the essence of what vice president...
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senate following tuesday elections. then the president obama obama and speaker bainer and then the polling during the 2012 presidential campaign. >> tomorrow president obama will be at arlington national cemetery to participate in the ceremony at the tom of the unknown and a remembrance ceremony. live coverage begins at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> 2013 should be the year we solve our debt reform. i'm proposing we avert the fiscal cliff and 2013 is finally the year our government comes to grips with the problems that are facing us. >> i'm open to compromise and new ideas. i'm committed to solving our fiscal challenge. but i refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. i'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes. >> the new elected congress starts in january but the congress has to do work in a lame duck session and they have to work on the federal deficit raising the debt ceiling and by how much
senate following tuesday elections. then the president obama obama and speaker bainer and then the polling during the 2012 presidential campaign. >> tomorrow president obama will be at arlington national cemetery to participate in the ceremony at the tom of the unknown and a remembrance ceremony. live coverage begins at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> 2013 should be the year we solve our debt reform. i'm proposing we avert the fiscal cliff and 2013 is finally the year our...
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a week after the election. i'm ed schultz. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> i'm so happy you had her on. we'll be talking about that later on in this show too. and that t-shirt is one for the smithsonian. >> it certainly is. there's no doubt. >> thank you, ed. >> thank you. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. in his first press conference after being re-elected to a second term as president, then president ronald reagan was asked if he had anything to say to the people in the country who did not vote for him and who did not feel that they were part of the reagan revolution. he was also asked about nancy reagan falling down and bumping her head right before the election. he said that she had a tender lump on the side of her head, but that she would be fine. in president clinton's first press conference, after he was re-elected to a second term, the president started to answer a question about the role of first lady hillary clinton in the second clinton term, before he sort of diverted himself into t
a week after the election. i'm ed schultz. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> i'm so happy you had her on. we'll be talking about that later on in this show too. and that t-shirt is one for the smithsonian. >> it certainly is. there's no doubt. >> thank you, ed. >> thank you. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. in his first press conference after being re-elected to a second term as president, then president ronald reagan was...
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the democrats' won 25 of the 33 senate elections. -- the democrats won 25 of the 33 senate elections. they want and all of the country. it is a victory that goes with president obama's victory. it was an affirmation of some good senate democratic candidates, but a rejection of republican extremism and obstruction. i want to emphasize the obstruction. the senate has always been a difficult place to make work. filibusters have always been in the atmosphere and a potential threat. and he is to be that the obstructionists were a few individuals. the leaders used to work to try to make the senate do the nation's business. these last four years, we had obstruction as a strategy of the republican party, led by senator mcconnell. if this election can be read as a the fsa -- a rejection of the polar ice senate. host: you are on the line with ira shapiro. caller: there were ability presidents i got this country out of trouble from the banks. we got into trouble trying to bring the banks back to their solvency. the greenback got us out of trouble. we have to get the little man out of the picture
the democrats' won 25 of the 33 senate elections. -- the democrats won 25 of the 33 senate elections. they want and all of the country. it is a victory that goes with president obama's victory. it was an affirmation of some good senate democratic candidates, but a rejection of republican extremism and obstruction. i want to emphasize the obstruction. the senate has always been a difficult place to make work. filibusters have always been in the atmosphere and a potential threat. and he is to be...
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that's how we win elections. we don't win elections by insulting voters. >> in the wake of the election a lot of republicans, not just jindal, are doing soul searching about how they can better appeal to groups that voted for obama. romney apparently didn't get that memo. joining me now, cnn contributors and republican strategist, mary matalin and charles blow. you have been tweeting extensively on this. you said you werlivid at governor romney, that the comments were offensive. you said he needs to take a look in the mirror. what do you mean? >> i think he needs to figure out what were his own flaws. what were the deficiencies with his campaign. i get it, okay, he was talking to 300 of his top donors, people who raised almost $1 billion and he needs to explain why he lost and it's easier to blame somebody else than to look in the mirror and blame yourself for your shortfalls but i think it's mitt romney who has to figure out why did he get 27% with the hispanic vote. mary worked for george w. bush white house. g
that's how we win elections. we don't win elections by insulting voters. >> in the wake of the election a lot of republicans, not just jindal, are doing soul searching about how they can better appeal to groups that voted for obama. romney apparently didn't get that memo. joining me now, cnn contributors and republican strategist, mary matalin and charles blow. you have been tweeting extensively on this. you said you werlivid at governor romney, that the comments were offensive. you said...